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South Korea arrests officer for corruption in Iraq:defence ministry
7 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jjNXr89lr1DbiG06dfo3WSjeLgvQ

SEOUL (AFP) � A South Korean army officer has been arrested and charged with corruption while serving in Iraq, the defence ministry said Saturday.

The 30-year-old captain is suspected of accepting 25,000 dollars in cash as well as a camera and other goods in bribes from an Iraqi builder who then received favourable treatment, a ministry spokesman told AFP.

He said the soldier allowed the Iraqi builder to extend a deadline for construction at South Korea's military base in Iraq.

Military prosecutors arrested the captain -- along with a master sergeant also suspected of involvement in the same case -- late last month, shortly after South Korea withdrew its troops from Iraq, he said.

The spokesman refused to identify the arrested soldiers or the Iraqi firm.

South Korea ended its four-year non-combat mission in Iraq on December 19 with the return of the remaining 519 soldiers the northern Iraqi city of Arbil and a 102-member air support unit from Kuwait.

South Korea sent 3,600 engineering and medical troops to Iraq in 2004, the third largest foreign troop presence at the time.

The deployment was extended four times at the request of the United States, with troops gradually cut in number.

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I see. Korea is striving to be an imperial power. Wants a military base in Iraq? Wants to grow food on half of Madagascar? Wants to get super rich? What a grandiose endeavor for such a small once poorest country to contemplate. Wow, they're dreamin big. Now, produce the quality and it's yours Korea. Start with redesigning the beer to be right and making friends with your neighbors and other people of the world. Act warm and friendly, but be assertive and thorough about your relations and situations; not shy, tense, avoiding, and trying to pull fast ones. Of course, all these ideas were instilled by the USA. Everything about modernization and conquering for wealth and power is an American idea of how to live and work. I think my country did the very most wrong things out in the world.

Of course, there's a reason why someone in power held this officer responsible for his corruptions. He wasn't brought in to held accountable, but because he pissed someone off.